A glimpse into my twisted little mind...

(Some of you are similarly messed up. Like those of you who
clicked on all those individual links--just to see if there was any porn. Yeah, you.)

This is a little detective story that I didn't know was a detective
story until I got to the end. It really started a a year or so
ago...

Actually, this post is really about Chyler Leigh, but you don't
know who she is. And I didn't either. Well, I did, but I didn't know
it was her. Sort of.

You see, I'm a fan of the movie
Not Another Teen Movie.
If you're a fan of the 80s teen movie (and related spoofs) genre, I
highly recommend it. Any movie with John Hughes High
School in it gets my vote.

At John Hughes High School, the students are the same as just about
every other teenager in a teen movie. The popular jock, Jake (Chris
Evans), takes a bet from Austin, the cocky blonde guy (Eric Christian
Olsen), that he can transform Janey, the pretty ugly girl (Chyler
Leigh), into the prom queen before the prom. But two people are trying
to stop Jake from succeeding: his evil sister, Catherine, the cruelest
girl in school (Mia Kirshner), and Priscilla, the bitchy cheerleader
(Jaime Pressly). And all of their friends are the same as any other
teen movie: Areola, the naked foreign exchange student (Cerina
Vincent), Les, the beautiful weirdo (Riley Smith), Malik, the token
black guy (Deon Richmond), the desperate virgins (Cody McMains, Samm
Levine, and Sam Huntington), Amanda Becker, the perfect girl (Lacey
Chabert), Ricky, Janey's obsessed best friend (Eric Jungmann), and
Sadie, the VERY old undercover reporter (Beverly Polcyn).

Anyway, one more than one occasion I've been watching the movie and
thought to myself, "Damn, not only is Janey Briggs cute, I could swear
I've seen her before." For those of you who don't remember (shame on
you), Janey is the main female character.

I'd never been able to figure
it out. I assumed that maybe she just looked a lot like a combination
of two actresses (or even non-actresses) that I've seen before. It's
possible. If you look at her just right, you can see a bit of JLH and
someone else in there. Maybe. But who?

Well, earlier today I was replying to a note from fellow goon Andy in which he made a
reference that reminded me of the movie. And I, of course, needed the
URL. So I headed over to IMDB to
find it, 'cause that's what geeks do.

While there, I thought to myself, "Hey, they have a roster of all
the film stars. I should find out what her real name is.

Yes, I watched it. So sue me. The basic premise was a three cute
20-something
lawyers in San Francisco. How bad could it be?

Three young women, best friends and roommates, work at a prestigious,
male-dominated law firm in San Francisco and deal with a variety of
courtroom cases, legal depositions and other professional and personal
matters.

Anyhoo, that's when it clicks. "Oh, yeah! That's right. I
remember watching that show and thinking, 'Damn, she reminds me of of
JLH.'"

Now I know, thanks to the Internet.

And so do you.

But the strange thing is that I also remember thinking I saw her in
something before Girls' Club. But nothing on her filmography
is anything I'd have seen.

Now, those playing along at home will realize that Lacey Chabert was
in Party of Five as the young Claudia Salinger. And she's also in Not
Another Teen Movie as Amanda Becker.

Funny little coincidence, huh?

It took me about 30 minutes after she appeared in the movie to
figure it out, 'cause she was a bit older than in Party of Five.

Anyway, back to Chyler...

In case you're disappointed that IMDB doesn't have any pictures of
her (you know, so you could have an idea who I'm talking about--since
you've never seen the movie or the TV show), never fear. If you search
Google for Chyler Leigh you'll find several fan sites with pictures. Some
are a bit more revealing than others. I shouldn't have been but I was
surprised.

There. I told you I was different. Not only did I actually think
and do this, I took 10 times as much time to also write about it and
include pictures.

honestly, i don't think you're very twisted at all. i can relate to most of those prior postings you listed. yes, i too email myself constantly to remind me to do things, or URLs to visit, things to buy, etc. why not? you know you'll read it...

oh yeah, and i just put my cats in the bathroom at night. but then again, i live in a studio apartment, so there aren't any other rooms for them to play in. while i'm asleep.

I'm generally not a fan of most of today's comedies (too much reliance on nothing more than gross-out jokes, and too little actual humor), but the trailer for NATM (showing the Breakfast Club library takeoff) sucked me in. Gotta say, NATM was far funnier than I expected it to be!

You are not the only geek that runs to IMDB every time he has a movie or actor question. Almost every night i find myself missing half the show i wanted to watch because something in it caused me to do a look up on IMDB. It's like Lay's. Betcha cant eat just one.

I noticed your blog links to autopr0n.com, which is now a dead address. The new site can be found at http://www.autopr0n.net/ thank you!

on May 18, 2005 10:31 AM

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